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Adam
Welc Less formal stuff :-) Email: adam@adamwelc.org URL: http://www.adamwelc.org |
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ABOUT ME | I
was born and lived pretty much all through my youth (elementary school
and high school times) in Bydgoszcz
(Poland). It may not be the prettiest city in the world (though a few
places are indeed quite beautiful), but I do like it a lot - some of my
fondest memories come from the time I lived there. After finishing high
school I moved to Poznan
where I spent five years in college doing MS in Computer Science at Poznan
University of Technology (and managed to accumulate even more
fond memories). And then, actually not that far from the point of
graduation, I decided to try my luck across the ocean and do my PhD in
the US. That's how I ended up at Purdue
University in West Lafayette, though for the most part of
over six years I spent there I lived across the river, in
Lafayette, which in my humble opinion is a much nicer place
(and you already know the bit about memories). And then I moved to
California to work for Intel, where I spent almost 5 years before
starting to work for Adobe. |
RECENTLY... | I don't do all that many super-exciting things, but occasionally something relatively interesting or fun does happen. Sometimes I even take pictures! I will try to update information about my trips and various other activities at least-semi regularly, but I am really not sure how well I can keep this promise... So, here it is - I am starting in the middle of 2007 with the newer stuff closer to the top. |
2010 | |
January-December | I
am getting worse and worse at this :-) This year more things happened,
though, as I joined Adobe's Advanced Technology Lab and I now work
downtown San Francisco, about two blocks away from where I live - which
is very nice! Other than that, the usual things. I keep diving, both in
warm waters (Egypt this year) and in not-so-warm waters in Monterey
where I help teac![]() ![]() ![]() |
2009 | |
January-October | And now, of course, we are
almost at the end of 2009 and I got fewer things written than in 2008.
As short summary then :-) I still very much like living in San
Francisco. I still work at Intel, and still like it quite a bit. As
usual, there is a lot of work but there is also time to do some cool
stuff. This year, so far, it was a short trip to Hawaii and an equally
short trip to Jamaica - both of them quite nice though, with diving in
Jamaica being (surprisingly) better than either in Hawaii or in the
Bahamas. I continue helping with the dive classes in California, which
I started almost right after I did my advanced certificate in 2007
(which I probably forgot to mention...). This year I also managed to
sail a bit more on the San Francisco Bay, mostly with a friend of mine,
Chris Owczarek, and his buddies. Now I am anxiously awaiting the
beginning of the ski season. Hopefully I will be able to hit the slopes
before Christmas! |
2008 | |
January-December | Hmm... How to summarize the
whole year...? Mostly work, a bit of fun, I guess. I moved back to San
Francisco after spending one year in Mountain View - closer to work but
way less interesting place to live. I went for a few nice
vacation/diving trips with my girlfriend (Cozumel in the fall and
Bahamas in winter) plus visited Poland and a few other places in
Europe, mostly for work-related purposes. Other than that, really not a
whole lot has happened - hence lack of updates (and because I am lazy,
of course ). |
2007 | |
October-December | ![]() ![]() |
September | ![]() ![]() |
August |
Not much has happened in August, but at end of the month I paid a short visit to my friends that live in the Chicago area. It's really kind of funny how much at home I feel while I am there, even though I didn't even spend that much time in Chicago when still living in Indiana... It's most likely because of the people rather than the place, but still... Unfortunately, I don't have too many pictures from this visit, and those that I have shouldn't really be made publicly available :-) |
July
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June |
My class reunion was rather small (around half of the people showed up) but, while we were missing some of those that couldn't make it, there was definitely enough of good people to have really great time! In addition to the people from my class, our two teachers from the old times showed up and I believe they were enjoying themselves quite a bit as well. The place we chose was also rather nice - a bed-and-breakfast type of place in a small village near the Pila city with a beautiful lake in walking distance from where we were staying. You can see out entire group in front of the bed-and-breakfast place on to picture to the left (for those that know people from my class - I hope we are still recognizable :-) ). I really love Mazury and so I was very happy when
Andrew, a friend of mine from the old college times in Poland, asked me
if I would be interested to go and do some sailing there with him, his
brother Marek, and his brother's girlfriend Ola. |